Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Date: Friday, 05/Dec/2025
11:00am
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5:00pm
Registration
12:00pm
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1:45pm
Lunch
2:00pm
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2:55pm
FRI 1-1: Value of Skills
 

Global Minds, Local Gains: A Tale of US-China AI Talent Migration

Hanming Fang1, Xian Gu2, Hanyin Yan3, Wu Zhu3

1: Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania; 2: Department of Finance, Durham University; 3: School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University

FRI 2-1: Banks
 

Frequent Stress Tests

Deepal Basak1, Mayur Choudhary2, Zhen Zhou3

1: Kelley School of Business, Indiana University; 2: London Business School; 3: PBC School of Finance, Tsinghua University, China, People's Republic of

FRI 3-1: Household Finance
 

Scared Away: Credit Demand Response to Expected Motherhood Penalty in the Labor Market

Darwin Choi1, Zhenyu Gao2, Sing-Sen Lam3, Tian Li4, Wenlan Qian5

1: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China); 2: Chinese University of Hong Kong; 3: Sun Yat-Sen University; 4: TCL Corporate Research(HK) Co., Ltd; 5: National University of Singapore

FRI 4-1: Networks
 

Knowledge Network and Asset Pricing

Gang Zhang1, Po-Hsuan Hsu2, Erica Li3, Huijun Wang4

1: International School of Finance, Fudan University; 2: National Tsing Hua University; 3: Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business; 4: Auburn University

3:10pm
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4:05pm
FRI 1-2: Value of Skills
 

Distant Investments: Decoding Mutual Fund Skills with Large Language Models

Xiyuan Ma1, Matthew Spiegel2, Hong Zhang1, Yijun Zhou3

1: Singapore Management University; 2: Yale University; 3: City University of New York

FRI 2-2: Banks
 

Uninsured Deposits, Run Risk, and Bank Stock Returns

Jack Bao1, Claire Yurong Hong2, Kewei Hou3, Thien Nguyen4

1: University of Delaware; 2: SAIF, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; 3: Ohio State University; 4: Federal Reserve Board

FRI 3-2: Household Finance
 

The Impact of Finfluencers on Retail Investment

Isaiah Hull1, Yingjie Qi2

1: CogniFrame, Inc.; 2: Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

FRI 4-2: Networks
 

Rethinking Exchange Rate Exposure in Equity Markets Through International Trade Networks

Seo Ha Kim2, Sungjune Pyun1

1: Yonsei University, Korea, Republic of (South Korea); 2: Stanford University, Stanford, CA

4:20pm
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5:15pm
FRI 1-3: Value of Skills
 

Data, Markups, and Asset Prices

Alexandre Corhay1, Jun Li2, Jincheng Tong1, Ben Tsou3, Kejia Hu4

1: University of Toronto, Canada; 2: University of Warwick; 3: University of Manchester; 4: University of Oxford

FRI 2-3: Banks
 

Bank Expertise and Structural Transformation

Yu Yi1, Gang Zhang2, Shengxing Zhang3

1: Nankai University, China, People's Republic of; 2: Fudan University; 3: Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business

FRI 3-3: Household Finance
 

Digital Transmission of Financial Knowledge: Evidence from Stock Market Investment

Xiaomin Guo1, Yi Huang2, Qi Sun3, Bernard Yeung1,4,5

1: SUSTech Business School; 2: Bank for International Settlements (BIS); 3: Shanghai University of Finance and Economics; 4: the National Univer sity of Singapore Business School; 5: ABFER

FRI 4-3: Networks
 

The Carbon Risk Premium Revisited: The Role of\\ Production Networks

Shubo Kou1, Kai Li2, Minghao Li3, Wu Zhu4

1: Nankai University; 2: Peking University; 3: Peking University; 4: Tsinghua University

5:30pm
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7:30pm
Reception

Date: Saturday, 06/Dec/2025
8:00am
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5:00pm
Registration
8:30am
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9:25am
SAT 1-1: Fixed Income
 

Anatomy of the Treasury Market: Who Moves Yields?

Manav Chaudhary1, Zhiyu Fu2, Haonan Zhou3

1: University of Chicago, Booth School of Business; 2: Washington University in St. Louis, Olin School of Business; 3: University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China)

SAT 2-1: Corporate Bonds
 

Illiquidity Meets Intelligence: AI-Driven Price Discovery in Corporate Bonds

Stacey Jacobsen, Kumar Venkataraman, David Xu

Southern Methodist University, United States of America

SAT 3-1: Health and Finance
 

Diffused Errors along Technology Spillovers: Evidence from the 510(k) Medical Device Market

Po-Hsuan Hsu1, Kyungran Lee2, S. Katie Moon3, Seungjoon Oh4

1: National Tsing Hua University; 2: Neoma Business School; 3: University of Colorado; 4: Peking University

SAT 4-1: Trust and Culture
 

Set in Stone: The Persistence and Origin of Corporate Culture

Kai Li1, Yu-Jane Liu2, Ruichang Lu2, Kaihao Qian2, Xiaojun Zhang2

1: University of British Columbia, Sauder School of Business; 2: Peking University, Guanghua School of Management,

9:40am
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10:35am
SAT 1-2: Fixed Income
 

What Quantity of Reserves Is Sufficient?

Yilin {David} Yang

City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China)

SAT 2-2: Corporate Bonds
 

What Drives Global Corporate Bond Returns?

Jiarui Deng1, Kewei Hou2, Zhan Shi1

1: PBC School of Finance, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100083, China; 2: Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210

SAT 3-2: Health and Finance
 

Healthy Returns: The Impact of Paid Sick Leave on Hospital Healthcare Quality

Jie Cao1, Lei Lei1, Linjia Song2, Xintong Zhan3

1: Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China, People's Republic of; 2: Xiamen University; 3: Fudan University

SAT 4-2: Trust and Culture
 

Valuing Ideological Customer Capital: Measurement through Procurement

Winston Dou1, Yan Ji2, David Reibstein2, Di Tian3

1: University of Pennsylvania and NBER; 2: HKUST, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China); 3: University of Pennsylvania

10:50am
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11:45am
SAT 1-3: Fixed Income
 

A Nascent International Financial Channel of China’s Monetary Policy Transmission

Chang Ma1, Alessandro Rebucci2, Sili Zhou3

1: Fudan University; 2: Johns Hopkins University; 3: University of Macau, Macau S.A.R. (China)

SAT 2-3: Corporate Bonds
 

The Risk and Return of Stocks and Bonds

Alex Dickerson1, Mathieu Fournier1, Jan Ericsson2, Piotr Orlowski3

1: UNSW business school, Australia; 2: Mc Gill University; 3: HEC Montreal

SAT 3-3: Health and Finance
 

What They Don't Know Can Hurt You: Hidden Medical Debt and Consumers’ Access to Credit

Elena Loutskina, Joonsung Won

University of Virginia, United States of America

SAT 4-3: Trust and Culture
 

From CeFi to DeFi: What does Investors (Mis)trust?

Shaokai Ding1, Wenzhi Ding2, Chen Lin3

1: Manchester University, Manchester (U.K.); 2: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China); 3: The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China)

11:55am
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1:45pm
Lunch
2:00pm
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2:55pm
SAT 5-1: Patterns in Returns
 

Mosaics of Predictability

Lin William Cong1, Guanhao Feng2, Jingyu He2, Yuanzhi Wang2

1: Cornell University SC Johnson College of Business (Johnson) and NBER; 2: City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China)

SAT 6-1: Financial Products
 

Asset Pricing with "Buy Now, Pay Later"

Semyon Malamud1, Neng Wang2, Yuan Zhang3

1: Swiss Finance Institute, EPFL, and CEPR, Switzerland; 2: Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business and NBER, China; 3: Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China

SAT 7-1: Labor Market Disruptions
 

Nationalistic Labor Policies Hinder Financial Innovation

Francesco D'Acunto1, Hengyi Huang2, Michael Weber3, Jin Xie4, Liu Yang5

1: McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University; 2: Tilburg University; 3: Chicago Booth School of Business and NBER; 4: Peking University HSBC Business School; 5: University of Maryland

SAT 8-1: ESG
 

How green is green? Anatomy of ESG funds’ selection

Dunhong Jin, Roni Michaely, Menghan Wang

University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China)

3:10pm
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4:05pm
SAT 5-2: Patterns in Returns
 

Anomaly-driven demand

Anders Merrild Posselt, Mads Markvart Kjær

Aarhus University, Denmark

SAT 6-2: Financial Products
 

The Distribution Side of Insurance Markets

Jiaxing Tian1, Li An2, Wei Huang3, Dong Lou4, Yongxiang Wang5

1: Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen; 2: Tsinghua PBC School of Finance; 3: University of International Business and Economics; 4: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and CEPR; 5: Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance

SAT 7-2: Labor Market Disruptions
 

Labor Unrest and Socially Responsible Hiring

Bohui Zhang1, Jiaxing You2, Haikun Zhu3

1: Xiamen University; 2: The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen); 3: China Europe International Business School, China, People's Republic of

SAT 8-2: ESG
 

Oil-Driven Greenium

Zhan Shi1, Shaojun Zhang2

1: Tsinghua University, China, People's Republic of; 2: The Ohio State University

4:20pm
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5:15pm
SAT 5-3: Patterns in Returns
 

Belief Skewness in the Stock Market

Arthur Beddock1, Paul Karehnke2

1: City University of Hong Kong; 2: ESCP Business School

SAT 6-3: Financial Products
 

Leasing as a corporate risk management mechanism

Weiwei Hu1, Kai Li1, Chenjie Xu2

1: Peking University, HSBC Business School, China, People's Republic of; 2: Shanghai University of Finance and Economics

SAT 7-3: Labor Market Disruptions
 

Displacement or Augmentation? The Effects of AI on Workforce Dynamics and Firm Value

Mark Chen1, Joanna Wang2

1: Georgia State University; 2: Peking University

SAT 8-3: ESG
 

The Salience of Climate Change and Green Patents Review: Evidence from Climatic Disasters

Jie Cao1, Tao Shu2, Xuan Tian3, Yajing Wang1, Xintong Zhan4

1: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China); 2: The Chinese University of Hong Kong; 3: Tsinghua University; 4: Fudan University

5:30pm
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7:30pm
Awards Reception

Date: Sunday, 07/Dec/2025
8:00am
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5:00pm
Registration
8:30am
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9:25am
SUN 1-1: Crypto and Fintech
 

Is Love Blind? AI-Powered Trading with Emotional Dividends

De-Rong Kong1, Valeria Fedyk2, Daniel Rabetti3,4

1: Yuan Ze University; 2: Arizona State University; 3: National University of Singapore; 4: Harvard Business School (visiting)

SUN 2-1: Disclosure and Transparency
 

CEO Incentives and Acquisitions: Evidence from the Pay Ratio Disclosure Mandate

Sudipto Dasgupta1,2,4, Tao Shu1,3, Yuxuan Zhu1

1: Chinese University of Hong Kong; 2: CEPR; 3: ABFER; 4: ECGI

SUN 3-1: Government
 

Government Spending and Rising Industry Stars

Roberto Gomez Cram, Yunhan Guo, Howard Kung, Luca Mecca

London Business School

SUN 4-1: Risk Factors
 

So Many Jumps, So Little News

Yacine Ait-Sahalia1, Chen Xu Li2, Chenxu Li3

1: Princeton University, USA; 2: Renmin University of China, China; 3: Peking University, China

9:40am
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10:35am
SUN 1-2: Crypto and Fintech
 

Crypto Risk in the Financial System

Hengguo Da1, Kose John2, Ndackyssa Oyima-Antseleve3

1: SWUFE, China, People's Republic of; 2: NYU, USA; 3: CAL Poly, USA

SUN 2-2: Disclosure and Transparency
 

Unveiling the Fog of Law: Judicial Transparency and Entrepreneurship

Xing Liu, Xuan Tian, Zhiming Zhu

Tsinghua University, PBC School of Finance

SUN 3-2: Government
 

Contracting with Government: Judicial Independence and Expropriation Risk in the Capital Market

Naide Ye

Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, People's Republic of

SUN 4-2: Risk Factors
 

Common Risk Factors in the Returns on Stocks, Bonds (and Options), Redux

Zhongtian Chen1, Nikolai Roussanov2, Xiaoliang Wang3, Dongchen Zou4

1: The Wharton School; 2: The Wharton School; 3: HKUST Business School, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China); 4: The Wharton School

10:50am
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11:45am
SUN 1-3: Crypto and Fintech
 

CODE-WASHING: EVIDENCE FROM OPEN-SOURCE BLOCKCHAIN STARTUPS

Ofir Gefen1, Daniel Rabetti1, Yannan Sun2, Che Zhang3

1: National University of Singapore; 2: The University of Hong Kong; 3: Tsinghua University

SUN 2-3: Disclosure and Transparency
 

Moral Hazard and the Corporate Information Environment

Dan Luo

Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China)

SUN 3-3: Government
 

Sowing Public Seeds, Reaping Private Blooms: A Q-theoretical Approach to Government Investment

Zhiyao Chen1, Ran Duchin2, Daniel Kim3

1: City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China); 2: Boston College; 3: University of Waterloo

SUN 4-3: Risk Factors
 

Semiparametric Conditional Factor Models in Asset Pricing

Qihui Chen1, Nikolai Roussanov2, Xiaoliang Wang3

1: CUHK-Shenzhen; 2: The Wharton School; 3: HKUST Business School, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China)

11:55am
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1:45pm
Lunch
2:00pm
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2:55pm
SUN 5-1: Information and Trading in Financial Market
 

Inside Out: Who Trade Before the Start of Cyber Attacks?

Xi Dong1, Edward Xuejun Li1, Xintian Lin2, Xin Yuan3

1: Baruch College, City University of New York; 2: Central University of Finance and Economics; 3: Dongbei University of Finance and Economics

SUN 6-1: Inequality
 

To Grant or Not to Grant: Inventor Gender and Patent Examination Outcomes

Yuqi Gu2, Katharina Lewellen3, Connie Mao1, Yueru Qin4

1: Temple University, United States of America; 2: Willamette University; 3: Dartmouth College; 4: Nankai University

3:10pm
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4:05pm
SUN 5-2: Information and Trading in Financial Market
 

Market Feedback: Evidence from the Horse’s Mouth

Itay Goldstein1, Bibo Liu2, Liyan Yang3

1: University of Pennsylvania; 2: Tsinghua University; 3: University of Toronto

SUN 6-2: Inequality
 

Share the gain but not the pain: Managerial rent extraction and the manager-worker pay growth gap

Jie He1, Lei Li2, Rik Sen1, Tao Shu3

1: gUniversity of Georgia, United States of America; 2: Meta Platforms Inc; 3: Chinese University of Hong Kong

4:20pm
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5:15pm
SUN 5-3: Information and Trading in Financial Market
 

China Walls

Daniel Nathan1, Chaojun Wang2, Tomy Lee3

1: PolyU, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China); 2: The Wharton School; 3: CEU

SUN 6-3: Inequality
 

Does Digitalization Widen Labor Income Inequality?

Jilei Huang1, Yi Sun2, Jian Wang3, Liyan Yang4

1: School of Economics, Shandong University; 2: School of Economics and Management, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences; 3: School of Management and Economics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen); 4: Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto